Close on the heels of Pune and Baramati, India's infotech capital, Bangalore, too will provide seamless wireless connectivity as a part of its Rs 800 crore "Unwire Bangalore" project.
Even as Delhi has been planning to make the city "wireless", the Karnataka government has reportedly given the go-ahead to all the five bidding consortia to roll out the services in a phased manner. Three of the bidders have started deploying the required infrastructure and services will be rolled out in 2007.
Conceptualised on a build, operate and own model, the Unwire Bangalore project aims at creating an infrastructure network that will provide wireless Internet connection to the entire city using world interoperability for microwave access (WiMax) and Wi-Fi technologies. The project is expected to cover 679 square km of the city in a phased manner.
Its wireless connectivity is based on pay per usage of bandwidth, using SRIT's product DynaRate, which enables users to demand bandwidth on a real-time and dynamic basis.
The consortium will offer up to 34 kbps of bandwidth free to the subscribers and any additional consumption of bandwidth for higher use will be charged on a pay-per-use basis.
Source: Rediff
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